Large wild hog meets its death on the Toccoa Highway

On closer inspection, the dead animal beside the highway between Westminster and Toccoa was identified as a wild hog–estimated to have weighed 300 pounds.  The victim yesterday of an apparent motor vehicle strike, the wild hog bled out on U-S 123, the Westminster-Toccoa Highway.  Travis Collins of the Cleveland Volunteer Fire Department says the section of 123 between Arve’s Landing Road and the Cleveland Pike Road has been a common spot for wild hog crossings and accidents.  To at least one passerby, the wild hog resembled a bear.